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The most distant object in space has been captured, and it looks like a snowman.

The most distant object in space has been captured, and it looks like a snowman.

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In the last fifty years, science has progressed in leaps and bounds. In 1969 we put a man on the moon, and in 2019 we captured the first ever image of the most distant object in the universe.

Yesterday, Nasa New Horizons beamed back the first ever picture, and science data from UltimaThule, which is the most distant object ever discovered.

UltimaThule are what planetary scientists call a “contact binary” — two bodies that formed separately and then gently touched and stuck together.

#UltimaThule used to be 2 separate objects. It likely formed over time as a rotating cloud of small, icy bodies started to combine. Eventually, 2 larger bodies remained & slowly spiraled closer until they touched, forming the bi-lobed object we see today: https://t.co/ZuxLDtzW9cpic.twitter.com/FwWDAaAdey

While we have come a long way from the first moon landing, it is amusing that we are still finding new stuff in space every day.

This is fascinating. At some point in history, 4 billion miles from the sun, two pieces of the early solar system collided and stuck together, and we went out and took a pic of the result. What a great pic! https://t.co/j7kEOjnB35